Seventeen: Your character, Magnolia recently joined the Hart of Dixie cast. What can you tell us about her?

Claudia Lee: Magnolia is Jamie King's character Lemon's younger sister and she is the total opposite of Lemon. If you watch the show you can see that, because when they introduced Magnolia, she got alcohol poisoning and was a little out there. She butts heads with her sister. Magnolia stands up for what she believes in and is a very strong-willed person. That's the total opposite of Lemon. You will definitely see more woopsies from Magnolia. She's in this family that's looked upon in Blue Bell as the family who runs the town and one little thing Magnolia does wrong could ruin their reputation. It's that struggle of not wanting to ruin the reputation of your family but still being a teenager and trying to find yourself.

17: She's shaking things up!

CL: She is shaking things up! She's very strategic. She plans things out perfectly for certain reasons and you'll see that too.

17: How well do you relate to Magnolia's personality?

CL: Her passion for what she believes in is definitely something I relate to, but I also think I'm very different from Magnolia because I don't go out and party like she does. I listen to my parents. But I can definitely relate to the strong-willed aspect of her.

CL: Yes! When I was little, my babysitter and I used to watch The O.C. together and I totally remember Rachel from The O.C. and I just loved her style. And she's just so unpretentious and down to earth. So I'm such a huge fan of hers. She also has she ShoeMint, her shoe line with Steve Madden coming out and I'm excited about that. I hear details from her and I just cannot wait.

17: You also have your album coming out! What is your favorite song on the album? (Seventeen'spick: "Hollywood Sunset"!)

CL: That's really tough because each song has it's own flavor and twist. I have 12 songs and five of them I wrote, which I'm very proud of. I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning. I'm not the type of artist that's like "let's go out and party and dance your life away!" I think those artists are so cool, but I wanted meaning in my sonds and they have messages.

17: What is your writing process like?

CL: I think of moments in my life that I go through or I see my friends go through. One of the songs on my album is about my friend and a struggle that she had to overcome. She had a very difficult family situation and she had to really mature and grow up in a sense because she has younger siblings who look up to her. The whole family was just distraught by what happened to them, so I wrote a song about her.

New episodes of Hart of Dixie start January 23rd at 9 p.m. on The CW and Claudia's debut album comes out Feb. 28th!